Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov

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1. Where does Humbert
first meet Lolita?

(A) 123 Ramsdale Lane

(B) 555 Beardsley Avenue

(C) 342 Lawn Street

(D) Pavor Manor

2. How does Humbert
refer to the readers of his narrative?

(A) As members of a jury

(B) As conspirators

(C) As nymphets

(D) As Americans

3. Who is Humbert’s
first love?

(A) Monique

(B) Valeria

(C) Charlotte

(D) Annabel

4. According to John
Ray, Jr., Ph.D., what ultimately happens to Humbert?

(A) He shoots himself

(B) He is pardoned for his crime

(C) He dies of a coronary thrombosis

(D) Quilty kills him

5. Who is the narrator
of the foreword?

(A) The author of the manuscript

(B) A lawyer hired by the author’s estate

(C) An editor hired by the trial lawyer

(D) A psychiatrist from a sanitarium

6. How does Humbert’s
first marriage end?

(A) His wife leaves with another man

(B) He leaves his wife for a young girl

(C) His wife discovers that Humbert is gay

(D) His wife commits suicide

7. In Beardsley,
which friend helps Lolita cover her lies?

(A) Rosaline

(B) Mona

(C) Charlie

(D) Harriet

8. Of the following
names, which one never gets applied to Lolita?

(A) Dolores

(B) Dolly

(C) Lita

(D) Lo

9. Of the following
books, which was written by Nabokov?

(A) Winesburg, Ohio

(B) Speak, Memory

(C) Crime and Punishment

(D) The Enchanted Hunters

10. Lolita eventually
marries

(A) Humbert Humbert

(B) Clare Quilty

(C) John Ray, Jr., Ph.D.

(D) Richard Schiller

11. Which of the
following characters does not die during the course of the novel?

(A) Annabel Leigh

(B) John Farlow

(C) Jean Farlow

(D) Humbert’s mother

12. What does Pratt
believe to be Lolita’s chief problem in school?

(A) She is not artistic

(B) She is having sex with Humbert

(C) She is not sexually mature

(D) She has no friends

13. Who is Clare
Quilty’s writing partner?

(A) Vivian Darkbloom

(B) Jack Windmuller

(C) Shirley Holmes

(D) Doug Morgan

14. What do Humbert
and Lolita do after Charlotte’s death?

(A) Move to Europe

(B) Travel across the United States

(C) Write a novel together

(D) Live quietly in Ramsdale

15. How does Humbert
learn the identity of Lolita’s kidnapper?

(A) He hires a private detective

(B) He retraces his cross-country tour

(C) Lolita tells him

(D) The police help him

16. At the start
of the novel, how old is Lolita?

(A) Nine

(B) Twelve

(C) Fifteen

(D) Seventeen

17. What does Humbert
teach?

(A) Mathematics

(B) History

(C) Art

(D) English

18. How does Humbert’s
marriage to Charlotte end?

(A) Humbert strangles her

(B) She leaves him after finding him with Lolita

(C) She is killed in a car accident

(D) She leaves him for another man

19. Which is not
one of Lolita’s hobbies?

(A) Tennis

(B) Horseback Riding

(C) Drawing

(D) Acting

20. Clare Quilty
wrote which play?

(A) Scrambled Husbands

(B) Picnic, Lightning

(C) Venice, Revisited

(D) The Enchanted Hunters

21. Who is Lolita’s
biological father?

(A) John Farlow

(B) Clare Quilty

(C) Humbert Humbert

(D) Harold Haze

22. Where do Humbert
and Lolita first have sex?

(A) In her bedroom

(B) In a hotel room

(C) In the a park

(D) In a movie theater

23. Before studying
literature, Humbert considers majoring in what subject?

I think there's a bit of a deeper meaning to the end of Chapter 35. As we see when Humbert goes downstairs after killing Quilty, there appears to be a party, or at least some sort of social gathering, occurring, none of which Humbert noticed before, dismissing the noise they had been making as "a mere singing in [his] ears." The people at this gathering seem not to care about the fact that he has just committed murder upstairs, and one even congratulates him: "Somebody ought to have done it long ago." I, for one, am brought to question how m... Read more→